did adam and eve get married before sex?

Question

if they did, then who married them, if not then why did god let them get away with their sins?

also, why is it considered a sin to have sex before marrige?

Answer 1

Actually since Eve was "of Adam" they were automatically married.

Well, sex outside of marriage is a sin because God knows the emotional stress that it causes. Few people ever think of that. Over 3/4 of all teen suicides are linked to "sex" and the rejection afterwards.

Even if we say it isn't a sin, what the other factors? Aids, other stds, some are lifelong diseases.

Btw, there is no such thing as "safe sex."

Answer 2

In the story of Adam and Eve, God created Eve by taking a rib from Adam and cloning Eve from this body part. This means that Adam and Eve were twins. They were identical twins with the same DNA.

This adds another dimension to the Adam and Eve marriage story. Many kings and queens in ancient times were brother and sister, e.g. the Peruvian Incas.

regarding your next question, about why is it considered a sin to have sex before marriage:

I think it is considered a sin because of the tradition and history of how women live and are treated.

It is only a sin in places where, if a woman becomes pregnant and has no husband, the woman and baby suffer by being outcast from society and the people treat them badly.

In Tahiti, in the old days, sex before marriage was not considered a sin because there was no outcasting of women who had babies. Babies were considered to be part of the village, and everyone watched out for them, if the mother and her female relatives could not.

In contemporary times, it is a sin only where women and their babies suffer from being treated badly by the populace, and it is not a sin in places where women are capable of taking care of their babies without being put down by other people.


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Answer 3

The Genesis story is Mythology that explores rather than explains the relation between God and his creation and particularly mankind - to use another word for Adam and Eve.

Having said that when you look at the real situation of the human condition it is soon realised that we do not conduct our relationships like the other animals; animals do not moralise about their actions they act only on instinct. On the other hand human beings are far more complex because they depend on their freedom and their conscience to make decisions regarding their relationship with one another. The notion of 'Wife' and 'Husband' suggest a legitimacy and a contractual agreement in the form of a covenant. This is necessary for the well ordering of society from the earliest civilisations. Ideally man and woman are not partners in an intimate relationship but husband and wife. Adam and Eve are described as husband and wife as the first order of relationship intended by the Creator. We simply cannot rely on instinct because whether one likes it or not there are many strings attached - legal , emotional and more.

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Answer 4

There is no reference in my bible that A&E were ever married. lol

they only sinned when they didn't obey God i.e. eating the forbidden fruit.

the idea that sex before marriage is a sin is in my bible, with commentary from some clever blokes, says '...the two (man & woman) shall be united in love, the gift of self and shared happiness...' also if it seen as a sin to have sex outside marriage it controls the poulation, everyone knows their parents, and the clever, literate members of the community, usually men in the past, have all the power and control everyone else.

over the page in my bible it says '...DO NOT TAKE EVERYTHING LITERALLY...'

maybe a preist will post an answer lol :)

Answer 5

Wow Freddy,now that's a question.If u read Genisis,after GOD made what he did,whether they were plants,animals,whatever,THE BIBLE says,that GOD said that IT WAS GOOD,AND THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE WHATEVER DAY IT WAS.Those words IT WAS GOOD means a marriage between GOD,and what HE created.When GOD said in the BIBLE that HE saw that Adam was alone,and that it was not good,HE decided to make him a help mate.This means wife.GOD had already married them before Eve was created.As 4 your 2nd question,that should be a no brainer.Just look at the deceases that r past around from partner to partner,THE BIBLE states that we should be pure before marriage.Do u honestly think it is right to pass on a communicable disease to your wife,or husband should u decide to marry?

Answer 6

1. No. 2. In Genesis 2:20-26 we have the basis for marriage and verse 26 refers to "the man and his wife". There was not a formal marriage ceremony, but God created Eve out of Adam.

Sex before marriage is fornication. Lots of people do it, but marriage is Biblically the correct place for sex. God's laws are intended to prevent us from getting into trouble. How many people get into trouble for having sex solely with their spouse in general? How many people have all sorts of problems from STD's to ruined marriages due to adultery because of sex with someone who is not their spouse? A less loaded example would be in the Old Testament where all sorts of foods and food preparation that we now know to be unsafe were disallowed for the Israelites.

Answer 7

Interesting insight...

I think that the fact that God created Adam and Eve as the people to sort of start mankind was enough of a go-ahead for them:)

As for your other question, I personally think because it is a special thing to share with someone... and people know that its wrong to have sex before marriage, but they do it anyway. I think God put STDs on earth for a reason:)

Answer 8

God gave Eve to Adam as his wife. As to why it is a sin to have sex before marriage, it has to do with a couple of factors. Historically, a woman who had sex before marriage brought shame upon her father's house and was looked down upon as a "loose woman" who having lost her virginity was not suitable to be the wife of a respectable man. She either didn't get married, became a prostitute, or married below her family's station in the community.

The Bible uses pictures of adultery and promiscuity as being similar to when people turn away from the true and living God of Heaven to worship worthless idols. As it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual.

God knows that the best, most satisfying relationships come when one man and one woman have a special bond between them when they have had sex with one another and no one else. Marriage is a holy covenant taken before God and human witnesses to that intent. When people have sex before marriage they very often never end up getting married and so the man and the woman involved can never bring to a future marriage partner the gift of sharing their bodies with their spouse who can know them like no one else in the world has ever known them. If they are both virgins when they get married then they can have a special unique and private sharing between them that sets them in their relationship apart from the rest of the world.

That's why Jesus said: "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." Matthew 19:4-6

Answer 9

God Himself bequeathed Eve to Adam.

Answer 10

in accordance to Jewish concept, a husband and spouse are initially one soul previously beginning, chop up in a million/2 while the 1st of the two is conceived. Marriage - and greater particularly intimacy between husband and spouse - represents the reunion of halves as a single entity. In describing the reunion that marital kinfolk represents, the Torah tells us, "as a result shall a guy leave his mum and dad and cleave unto his spouse, and that they shall grow to be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). Nowhere in Torah does it point out "marriage" persay, which includes what you're asking. intercourse? Adam & Eve have been organic and without evil recommendations until the "apple" inccident. They knew not of "intercourse", yet of "understanding", as defined right here: Adam and Eve raised Cain, the 1st man or woman ever produced by ability of sexual intercourse. ("And Adam KNEW Eve his spouse, and he or she conceived, and bore Cain." Eve considered him to be a blessing from HaShem: ")